The following are selected academic articles and policy essays.
How Putin's Crackdown Holds Russia Back
with Kathryn Stoner-WeissVol. 87, No. 1 (Winter 2007)
The conventional...
Articles and Essays
September 28, 2007
Ukraine Imports Democracy: External Influences on the Orange Revolution
International Security
Vol. 32, No. 2 (Fall 2007)
Can the West promote democracy? An examination of one critical case, the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine,...
April 1, 2007
Are New Democracies War-Prone?
Journal of Democracy
April 2007
A review of Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War by Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder...
March 26, 2007
Constructing Self-Enforcing Federalism in the Early United States and Modern Russia
Publius: A Journal of Federalism
All federal systems face the two fundamental dilemmas of federalism: too strong a center risks overawing the subnational units; and...
October 1, 2005
Chinese Dreams, Persian Realities
Journal of Democracy
The mid-2005 election of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad as Iran's new president left those committed to democratic change in the country feeling shocked and...
July 1, 2005
Transitions from Postcommunism
Journal of Democracy
The years since 2000 have seen a surprising new wave of democratic breakthroughs in the postcommunist countries of Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine....
April 1, 2002
The Liberty Doctrine: Reclaiming the Purpose of American Power
Policy Review
THE IMMEDIATE RESPONSE of President Bush and his administration to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States was superb,...
January 1, 2002
The Fourth Wave of Democracy and Dictatorship: Noncooperative Transitions in the Postcommunist World
World Politics
March 1, 1999
Institutional Design, Uncertainty, and Path Dependency during Transitions: Cases from Russia
Constitutional Political Economy
During transitional moments, new leaders must design political institutions. Some of these designs succeed in establishing lasting rules of the...